Apple will disable automatic Wi‑Fi credential syncing between iPhone and Apple Watch for European Union users in iOS 26.2, according to a report that Apple reportedly confirmed to Numerama. The change, tied to the EU’s Digital Markets Act and a year-end compliance deadline aligning with next month’s release, means watches...
Google’s Gemini Deep Research now reaches beyond the web, pulling context directly from your Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Chat to inform responses. The tool can analyze Docs, Slides, Sheets, PDFs, emails, and messages, enabling tasks like market analyses or competitor reports that blend internal files with public data. Users...
Cloud gaming arrives on Sony’s PlayStation Portal starting today, opening the handheld to streaming beyond Remote Play. Owners can access select digital PS5 titles from their own libraries and a catalog available through PlayStation Plus, all via a new Cloud Streaming home screen with search. The update also adds 3D...
Google and Disney’s contract standoff has yanked 21 Disney-owned channels — including ABC and ESPN — from YouTube TV and stripped subscribers of cloud DVR recordings tied to those networks. Google’s support page warns Disney recordings will vanish until a deal returns them, underscoring how cloud storage can disappear overnight....
Former Meta interface designers Mina Fahmi and Kirak Hong unveiled Sandbar's Stream, a ring billed as a "mouse for voice" that records whispered thoughts with a press and hold on the touchpad, chats via an in-app AI, organizes notes, and doubles as a media controller. Preorders open at $249 silver...
Google unveiled Project Suncatcher, a moonshot to test AI computing in space using swarms of solar-powered satellites fitted with its TPU chips and linked by laser communications. The company says early radiation tests suggest the hardware can survive orbit, but CEO Sundar Pichai flagged hurdles including thermal management and on-orbit...
Google is updating the Pixel-exclusive Sounds app to version 3.3, bringing a Material 3 Expressive refresh and 18 nature recordings to the Sound Matters collection, including cicadas, cuckoos, and a dawn chorus captured in Wild Hokkaido. The 11 sound collections now feature abstract, Dynamic Color-themed artwork, along with tidier bars...
After introducing floating controls on Android, Google is broadening AI Mode’s footprint in Chrome with a new shortcut on Android and iOS that appears beneath the New Tab Page search bar at google.com/aimode, alongside Incognito. The feature rolls out in the US today and is coming to 160 additional countries...
T-Mobile is widening access to its Starlink-powered emergency texting, letting anyone with a compatible phone — including AT&T and Verizon users — sign up to text 911 over satellite for free. Supported devices exclude phones with built-in emergency satellite texting: iPhone 14 and later and Pixel 9 and up (except...
Google released a Theme packs app on the Play Store to let Pixel owners personalize in one tap, bundling wallpapers, dynamic colors, app icons, clock, sounds, and Gboard into seasonal packs. The first set, Wicked: For Good!, offers For Good, Glinda, and Elphaba styles, with previews and optional toggles for...
